Fauxductivity & Phone Habits

Are you "Fauxductive"? Dangerous Dave talks about how fauxductivity is and issue at most workplaces, where people pretend to be busier than they are. Plus, phone habits that can ruin your relationship.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with dangerous deed. Well,
here's a new fun word to say. Maybe you don't
tell your boss that you know what it means. One
in three workers in a new pole admit to productivity,
not productivity, foeductivity. May it look like you're more productive
than you really are. Common example of a mouse jiggler app.

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Looks like you're at your computer, but you just simply
claim you've worked hours that you didn't. A third of
low level employees admit to stuff like that. Around half
of managers say poductivity is a problem in general. But
the last data is pretty rich one once you hear it.
The pole found managers are actually more likely to be productive.

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Thirty seven percent of managers admit to it. Just thirty
two percent of non managers say it the top five
reasons for productivity. In other words, you're faking that you're productive.
Better work life balance, feeling burnt out, not enough work
to do, unrealistic expectations from their boss, and wanting to
appease upper management poductivity man, I'm going to become the

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expert in the two. Could your phone habits be slowly
killing your relationship? A marriage counselor posted a list of
nine things he and his wife agreed never to do
with their phones. General idea is that privacy in a
relationship is good, but you don't need to tell them everything,
but just make sure privacy doesn't turn into secrecy, which
is a difference. Top Phone habits you should avoid in

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a relationship. Not sharing passwords. You either trust each other
or you don't give them your password. Hiding your phone
like you tuck it away when you're in the shower
might seem suspicious. Keeping your phone face down on the
table seems like you're afraid to see a text come through,
Turning your phone away when you're using it like you're
trying to hide something when you're typing, quickly closing an app,
or locking your phone when they walk by, changing your

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password without telling them, being hot and cold about letting
them use its all or nothing when it comes to that.
Getting angry or defensive about privacy is so why it's
so important. Don't gaslight them at like it's crazy they
want to know your password and suddenly being highly protective
of your phone similar to number seven, unless you're planning

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their birthday or something, it's kind of a red flag.
So yeah, I frequently hand my wife my phone and
just hey, yeah, look at this, look at that. Whatever.
I don't have any secrets. That's what the burner phone
is for. To it again for another episode of Deeper
in the Den with Dangerous Dave right here.